* Elizabeth died one day in March in the year when her son George became eighteen, and the young man had but little sense of the meaning of her death.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

“Strangely and sweetly rational—so lenient, that if I did not know you as well as I do, I might imagine that your moral sense is rather misty.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Mohammed died in Medina in the year of our Lord 632, or year 11 of the Hejira.
— from Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. (John Henry) Haaren

"Velagic winced at hearing this; but soon he shrugged his shoulders, and added: "'What does it matter if that young coxcomb is in love with her, or even she with him.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

How it comes to pass that my story begins on a certain day in May, in the year of our Lord 1585, I can never, although I am far on in life now, properly explain.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

"Sure, I saw him doin' it myself, I tell ye.
— from The Weans at Rowallan by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Preached | vpon the first Sabbath day in Maie , | in the yeere .
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

I On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carré, in the Museum of the Louvre.
— from The American by Henry James